Rugby World Cup 2015 Pools
The 20 teams of Rugby World Cup are formed into four pools A-D. Here is complete guide and details on Rugby World Cup 2015 Groups & teams who will be seen playing in England during this fall. The position of each team in the pool is based on the World Rugby Rankings. Out of the 20 teams of RWC 2015, 12 teams are technically qualified for the competition due to their top three places in their pool at the previous Rugby World Cup 2011. The other 8 teams got qualified through winning their regional rugby competitions. The only change in teams at this eighth season of Rugby World Cup is participation of Uruguay instead of Russia.
Rugby world cup opening ceremony will be an awesome thing to watch. Do not miss that if you are a rugby fan. The four toppers in the world rankings as declared on 8th of June 2015 by the World Rugby (International Board of Rugby) are New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and England. Wales, Australia, France, Argentina, Samoa and Scotland are other nations among the top 10 nations at Word Rugby Ranking. New Zealand is leading the list from the time of inception of RWC and leading the ranking with firs position now too.
2015 Rugby World Cup Groups
Each team of RWC 2015 will be naming 31 players before final date of 31st August 2015. Rugby International Board, now known as World Rugby has set a deadline for declaring final squads as 31st August for all the 20 teams contesting at this years RWC tournament. Will be soon updating you on the squads of Rugby World Cup of each team.
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Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Australia
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South Africa
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New Zealand
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France
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England
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Samoa
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Argentina
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Ireland
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Wales
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Japan
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Tonga
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Italy
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Fiji
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Scotland
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Georgia
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Canada
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Uruguay
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USA
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Namibia
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Romania
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2015 Rugby World Cup Format
Rugby World Cup follows the uniform format since the time it started.
Each group will be playing 10 group stage games i.e making each country
play four group stage games following robin round format.
Teams are given four points for a win, two points for a draw and zero
for losing game. Any team which scores for or more tries in a single
match get to score a bonus point.
The top two teams from each pool will be heading to the quarter finals
of the Rugby World Cup 2015 tournament while the top three teams of each
pool will be automatically getting qualified to play at the 2019 Rugby
World Cup.
Beside England, other three nations who placed their bids to host the
Rugby World Cup 2015 are Italy, Japan and South Africa. England was
awarded the bid in July 2009 to host the Rugby World Cup 2015 while
Japan will be hosting the next season of the event in year 2019.
Do not forget to get rugby world cup live updates from our website. We will keep providing live streaming links as well as live score updates.
The RWC 2015 all matches are going to telecast by ITV sport in UK as
well worldwide which has acquired official rights to live stream the
event beating off the rival bids from Sky Sports and BBC Sports. Many
regional channels too will be broadcasting the Rugby World Cup matches
live in different countries from 18th September to 31st Oct. 2015. We
are sure you would have liked our piece of info on Rugby World Cup 2015 pools, Groups & Teams.
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